I've heard that 60% to the shop owner and 40% to the tattooer because the owner pays rent , owns the sterilizer, flash, etc. But is that just to start out? And Should the artist be paid more? My main question is a little more complicated ...
What about the successful tattoo artists that are booked up for months for portraits or other detailed expensive tattoos?
Now lets just say a successful tattoo artist works 5 days a week and makes $400 a tattoo. Thats $2,000 a week and $8,000 a month. (Bear with me here) Ok, so the shop owner still gets 60%? That would be $4,800 to the shop owner every 4 weeks and $62,400 a year! That would well exceed the normal expenses of an artist.
LONG Story short, what would a very successful tattoo artist pay the shop owner? How would it work out so that the artist is paid fairly?
2007-08-22
17:46:16
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